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CAYMAN ISLANDS REEF Caribbean reef creatures found commonly
CREATURES FISH ID CARD
The Cayman Islands - Grand Cayman,
Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac - have
so much fabulous underwater scenery and
so much sea life that this Franko's fish
card just had to be created. Side one
presents a mini-Franko's Map for each of
the three Cayman Islands, showing their
respective major scuba and snorkeling
sites. These scaled down, yet accurate
maps show the major features of Grand
Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman
Brac, and the descending blue hues of the
water indicate depths as they increase all
along the famous walls of the Cayman
Islands. There are over 150 dive sites
named on side 1 of this fish card. Actual
GPS data was used to accurately locate the
dive site moorings on these tiny maps.
Little Cayman sites include Bloody Bay's
most famous wall dives and the south
sides numerous sites, particular on the
west end of the island. Cayman Brac's
most famous sites including favorites like
the Tibbetts Wreck, Grunt Valley and
Greenhouse Reef are shown on the north
side, with favorites like Rock Monster
Chimney on the south. Grand Cayman is
famous for the best shallow dive in the
world - Stingray City. Dozens and dozens
of other dive sites are noted on the map of
Grand Cayman.
Side two of Franko's Cayman Islands Reef
Creatures Guide depicts 100 plus
in Cayman waters. Although one could
never really depict the beauty of tropical
reef creatures or their environment, this is
an amazingly colorful rendition of a huge
number of species of the most commonly
found reef creatures of the Cayman
Islands. Nature supplied the beauty,
Franko just tried to show it in a form so
that the scuba diver or snorkeler could
identify the creatures first hand. Fabulous
angelfishes, parrot fishes, damsels,
wrasses, groupers, snappers, rays, and
chromis are but a few of the types of fish
shown. But of course - this is the Cayman
Islands, so certainly the most famous fish
of all must be shown, and that is the lovely
Southern Stingray gliding above the sand.
There are also a number of colorful corals
and sponges, plus a team of invertebrates
awaiting your discovery. This fish card
will have you dreaming of your next (or
first) trip to the Cayman Islands for sure.
Say Good Day to everybody for Franko
when you are there. The fish card measure
(H x L) 5.5" x 8.5" (14cm x 21.6cm), is
printed on laminated plastic so that it is
stiff, shiny and waterproof. It has a hole
for a lanyard, so you can actually take it
diving or snorkeling. Note that the card is
sized just right for 3-ring binder-type dive
logs. Divers who keep dive log booklets
can put this card into their log book to
keep track of where they've been, plus
what species of fish they've seen. Card
makes a great gift idea.